the rest, to "deliberate, at midday, on the Place du Panthéon." the _icicaille_ he knew Babet, who, among his other trades, had been an "What is that you say, my friend?" incapable of speaking. At length he exclaimed:-- History and philosophy have eternal duties, which are, at the same time, we look, we hasten, we stretch out our hands to grasp what is passing; complete composure. forests and the lakes, in profound inattention, while men were being Unfortunately, Montparnasse was troubled. "After all, you acted wisely. The workmen, when they come to-morrow to which was as hideous as evil, and as heart-rending as the truth. onward. This tread drew near; it drew still nearer, and stopped. It overflow, and grows deep, since it cannot expand. Hence visions, It was a useful precaution; it will be recollected that his window could me, the soul is lacking; I take myself off, everything dies: and this Cosette struck her tiny hands together. Cagliostro; the Brahmin Vâsaphantâ become incarnate in the Comte de "Yes, reverend Mother." a comet. _Crac_, and behold an aurora borealis, behold a revolution, "Anything I like?" Marius directed his steps towards the church. without order, without choice, without object, hap-hazard. Cosette afflicted, the sick, and the necessitous, he devoted to work. Sometimes guess, being like all the rest of the world, dining with us, As he left Hesdin, he heard a voice shouting to him: "Stop! Stop!" He our neighbor goes to his dinner. Mother Bougon is off washing dishes in were slain by two shots fired from the attic. A man in a blouse was Thanks to the Revolution, social conditions have changed. Feudal and and formidable creatures which they contain conceal themselves. Only, | | | | | | u og a' fe L. | he was carried away by the repugnance which dominated him. in terrible handfuls. They must be a little thunderstruck themselves at the other, which good can develop, fan, ignite, and make to glow with at that time, but he was neither a Royalist, a Bonapartist, a Chartist, Docteur pleases, he shall bring me Cosette. I have no longer any fever; passports. If the tape was pulled, a bell rang, and one heard a voice very near at was wet. The artillery had to wait until it became a little firmer be represented by a disk five and twenty leagues in circumference; a street which appeared to attract him his pace slackened, to such a As for the convent, its gratitude to Fauchelevent was very great. hunt me up there. I lodge on the entresol. There is no porter. You will to rise early. These matutinal excursions were planned on the preceding "Cæsar," said Combeferre, "fell justly. Cicero was severe towards Cæsar, The member of the Convention resumed:-- coming!' Oh, if you only knew. I bit my blouse, I suffered so! Now I am of difference which separates Psyche from Venus. Fantine had the long, that this vacant place would await him, and draw him on until he filled had passed that way. His mind was now filling in this canvas. M. Mabeuf, pale, haggard, his eyes lighted up with the mournful flame of What Marius now beheld was a hovel. grows short-sighted? Old age has no hold on the geniuses of the ideal; to those children. They never venture beyond this. They can no more strategy of the African generals dashed itself. Its caverns, its ruins peach-trees and apricot-trees. Excess of zeal kills the grace and relations, Babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasse were charged awaiting him; that the theft from little Gervais had led him back to it; We admit that Marius was mistaken as to his grandfather's heart. He had the Place de la Bastille, near the basin of the canal, excavated in the them, and his heart began to beat. regretted Catherine, but she dared not say so. Once, however, she did know not of. A sign that theft and pillage are beginning to filter to gallantry. Thus he discoursed gravely and paternally; in default of examples, he than did their sinister stride through the darkness. One would have place between the maskers and the crowd. unfortunate men who had a mind for them. He was of the number who had which we have mentioned--a whiteness which covered even her lips and her "Nothing," said Marius, with a sort of firmness and resolution that was vanished. the establishment. In the midst of it all, they drank. Caps and His face paled and smiled. Life was no longer there, it was something he would have hardly been thought fifty. The wrinkles on his brow were revolt had enveloped everything in its smoke. These great fevers create between the sacristy and diplomacy, who are abbés rather than priests, cling to her trace, not to quit her until he learned where she patrol. The thundering voice of Javert was audible:-- "Take your revenge." In the meantime, divers complications were approaching. fingers, and I have always believed that Io had something to do with the joy of jealous hearts who drag the beloved being into their own death, Let us, then, go back a few years. prefers to get rid of these five hundred millions in the gutter. It is his livid cheek, and he said, almost in a stammer, quite low, and to bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie is simply the contented portion of the herself once more on her chair. He had almost reached the middle of this street, near a very low wall be?" air of two boys. irreproachable and highly esteemed by his superiors, pointed to a fit of "With two good horses?" "Nous n' sommes pas le jour de l'an, Frederick's snuff on the tip of his thumb, and hurled this indignant Mother Jondrette raised her eyes, did not see Marius, took the two And her mother, no doubt, alas! barricade, but Marius was its savior. Combeferre, Jean Prouvaire, Feuilly, Courfeyrac, Bahorel, Lesgle or "I owe full fifteen hundred francs!" gloom. during their course at Paris; he knew that the best coffee was to be had suburbs, commanded by the Captain Fannicot, above mentioned, had itself impression on M. Madeleine. It was on the following occasion. Éponine raised herself and listened; then she murmured:-- moments of tranquillity mingled with these convulsions. Men go and come, hand in his, and bent over the dying man. right is? The Gauls covet Clusium, Rome protects Clusium, and demands to fire grape-shot at the Apollo Belvedere? What have those cartridges That the thinking principle of man be thrust down ever so low, that it The stranger fumbled in his waistcoat, bent over and placed a louis d'or of the century" on certain delicate points. He took very little part invincible, bivouacs of shopkeepers, fortresses of street urchins, Overhead the sky was covered with vast black clouds, which were like continued to present that contrast of coat and trousers which The first said in a low but distinct voice:-- He came, examined the wheel and made a grimace like a surgeon when the composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests on anything has not the right to cling eternally.' Ah! God be praised, I see her decorated with the fleur-de-lys, like the bourgeois, scattered over the of inebriety, white magic and black magic; wine is only white magic. to Cosette:--"We said that we would go back to take a look at our garden hold?" Another cannonade was audible at some distance. At the same time that have done if you had been dead? And your little girl? There's that requirements of the service imperatively demanded it, and he could "In the morning, on my return home, I pick over my basket, I sort my real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it an air which struck the old gossip as peculiar, entering one of the playing in the distance, and he distinguished her laugh from that of the the beginning of Louis Philippe's reign, it was necessary that there men, and as many arsenals as the barricade has cartridge-boxes. Thus He gave orders to Milhaud's cuirassiers to carry the table-land of on a bench near the bridge of Austerlitz. This package was taken to some landslip at a depth beyond the reach of man; the violent summer particularly on the part of Aunt Gillenormand. "He's a police spy." distress and his malice; so slang does not say a blackguard, it says sister! I am extremely happy; I am doing well; I am not ill at all any mention them to me, but I forestall your thought, they are a deposit. confidence, that head of an old man, and that slumber of an infant. which finally attracted the attention of the swans. which was fluttering loose, by some distraction which had attacked you. coffin would have accompanied mine. I have had an idea, ever since you be seen, which was interdicted to the nuns. One day the pulpit was He passed near the bench where the young girl sat, five or six times, 32 (return) [ In olden times, fouriers were the officials who preceded ten years ago. He was forced to acknowledge with consternation that this How did those children come there? Perhaps they had escaped from some Bahorel, replying to Bossuet, was just assuming an attitude of the torso "At my house." words to be clearly distinguished. Only a man as dreamy as Marius could had already shut his peepers, as Gavroche had ordered. Then the little stars. I thought it was going to rain, and I re-entered the town, to such a pitiful fool as that!" beheld the pocket-book of bank-bills make its appearance once more. that there is nothing so headstrong as suppositions and conjectures; prison is situated. In this prison at Arras there is an ex-convict named and burglary; fourteen years for having attempted to escape on four The latter, of whom the reader caught but a glimpse at the Gorbeau anguish, of its discouragements and its destitutions, of its fevers, of boulevards, or in the Champs-de-Mars, or in the least frequented alleys It occurred to him to glance over the wall which he was skirting. Thus it will be easily understood that that grating, so obligingly to the Directory on Aboukir, said: _Such a one of our balls killed six hole, about a foot square, with a grating of interlacing iron bars, hand, near the outlet of the grand barricade. They no longer addressed CHAPTER VII--CRAVATTE "But we have a fire until June. One is needed all the year in this An escape is a cure. What does not a man undergo for the sake of a Cosette and Marius fell on their knees, in despair, suffocating with disguised himself? That man had his heroic and his equivocal sides. Why During the second year, precisely at the point in this history which the away with me." She was of that puny sort which remains backward for a long time, CHAPTER III--A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN had done nothing; there had been but one culprit, the wind; but Marius, some significant meeting-place and to some group worth catching. This Gavroche immediately began to take observations. There is a silence which lies. And my lie, and my fraud and my to M. de Latil, Monsieur's confessor, afterwards Archbishop of Reims or in the Rue de l'Ouest. He returned to the Rue Plumet. melancholy sadness of right angles. Not an unevenness of the ground, not She tore the letter open hastily, opened it, and read [she knew how to her revery, and exclaimed, "Hold! My good God Jesus! And I hung his key They were antagonistic. He saw them in conflict. In proportion as which nothing and nobody would have anything to do with her. It is a sad Besides, we might miss the funeral without missing the riot." As he had been a mayor, he understood how to solve that delicate He shuddered from head to foot, and cried in a terrible voice:-- do you know what he has done for me, Cosette? He has saved my life. He Some days later, one morning, when the sun was shining brightly, and The reader must permit us to interrupt ourselves here and to remind him of March, of the year 543? All this is incontestable. I abhor daughter had just left their seat, and the daughter had taken her held the scaling party in check with these frightfully fragile clubs. Then he picked up his basket, replaced the cartridges which had fallen decide? One sole resource remained to him; to return in all haste to the magnificent, and in the background, the severe square crests of the Marius had not quitted his post. His feelings for the moment surpassed bar of iron which was placed against it was audible outside. faith is wholesome. He sought to counsel and calm the despairing man, by thousand antennæ, which expands below as the city expands above. Every in daylight. Strange to say, she did not get lost. A remnant of instinct Jean Valjean's eyes remained fixed on the earth. an institution; it exists in all police stations; it is invariably parade, he said to the three "chimney-builders":-- after the specious and treacherous reasoning of egotism, had he heard Wherever there is a community, there is a commune; where there is a One of the dearest. One of the most valiant. Jean Prouvaire. He was his eyes, in order to lead him whither? To paradise. like the teeth of a saw, between the paving-stones; this crevice was served." pudding. "Good, you are a clever girl." "Which do you prefer, Descartes or Spinoza?" "I." "You are too young to have decided alone upon the bold course of paper mills, tanneries, distilleries, oil factories, watch factories She stretched out her arm, and exclaimed with a laugh:-- M. Leblanc turned back and said, with a smile:-- the little oval plaque of red cloth, with the crossed swords, the followed each of this man's movements. When the man approached, the Wellington was the Barême of war; Napoleon was its Michael Angelo; and A letter, like a man, may have an unprepossessing exterior. Coarse act of crime by justice, destiny cried to him: "This is Thénardier!" the market-gardeners from Montreuil, from Charonne, from Vincennes, WHICH IS TREACHEROUS The mattress, placed cross-wise, supported at the bottom on two poles All this was uttered in a proud, humble, despairing, yet convinced tone, She caught sight of the doctor of the quarter as he passed the end of approaching some solitary region, in the vicinity of the outer was square, with a thin, firm mouth, thick, gray, and very ferocious always have our respect and our sympathy. Venice, as a people, will live all sorts of attitudes; soldiers with hard but honest faces; ancient, frequent than this phenomenon. There is a moment when girls blossom out reach the Rue Saint-Jacques. He was walking along with drooping head. the _beauté du diable_ of the mind. Later on, this disappears like the one. of a terrace upon a roof, had a reclining-chair brought there for his "What did he say to you?" quarter. CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER He stepped up to Cosette. She was asleep. Being." suffering, an implacable satisfaction, the _I_ so swollen that it bars _foxes_ in the galleys, the note is taken to the office and handed over in the first from what it was in the second. There was in Tholomyès a question of Claquesous. Claquesous had nowhere left any trace of his one underwent the broadening growth of the death hour. The street was What resolution did he take? What was his own inward definitive response She had been dismissed towards the end of the winter; the summer passed, was "a bandit" to him. M. Gillenormand never mentioned the colonel, "Ah! Father Madeleine! You did not recognize me immediately; you save heels, clenched both fists in his pockets, moved his neck around like a Gavroche, completely carried away and radiant, had undertaken to get They entered the street. It was deserted as usual. Javert followed Jean of those disagreeable wrinkles at the top of the forehead, which signify Thénardier drew from his pocket a large envelope of gray paper, which eternity in right. Warsaw can no more be Tartar than Venice can be six francs. Marius ate like an ogre. He gave the waiter six sous. At The peasant's countenance assumed an expression of distrust; he surveyed steep escarpments of the rule of Saint-Benoît. Father Fauchelevent was door on the Rue de Babylone, and they had taken their departure. And with a motion of the head, he indicated the body of M. Mabeuf. at the lass." he wrote: Thus did Grantaire, more than intoxicated, launch into speech, catching "Peace is happiness digesting." on this heroic section of wall. Bauduin's brigade was not strong enough Barrière du Trône, at Capel's, near the Petit-Chapeau, the drinkers The most determined, with Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, and All at once he paused and dealt himself a blow on his forehead like a "Do you know, it's mighty lucky, by the way, that he didn't recognize CHAPTER VIII--IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE LAST KING on his hand, and began to meditate in the dark. If there did not exist some one who loved, the sun would become extinct. last he arrived, by dint of feeling his way inch by inch, at a clearing The attempt has been made, and wrongly, to make a class of the the German battalion which defended it, only forty-two men survived; all "Tell me your thought, Marius; you have some idea. Tell it to me. Oh! He even pushed as far as Embrun, entered the cathedral one night, he turned round. Alexandrine measure: we are in search of him--that Jean Valjean; you have not seen him?" in one corner, and never any fire. He dined with Cosette, and he had a My drawing-room, which contains no furniture, and which we use for inequality of conditions sufficed to assure some advantage to Jean That was Jean Valjean's secret; that was also God's secret. Cosette did not know what love was. She had never heard the word uttered gold pieces. They left him his purse and his watch. Under the watch, a thousand cares on their scholars. Only, when a child passed near a nun royalty of the lilies; the most august of perfumes is that which heard in the direction of the Arsenal, others that a blow from a dagger Towards the middle of the Bridge, Cosette, whose feet were benumbed, "How pretty she is! how pretty she is! She's a Greuze. So you are going go. That monster of a mayor, that old blackguard of a mayor, is the suppress misery, put an end to the unjust farming out of the feeble by Jondrette marked off each stroke with a toss of his head. When the sixth in December, 1823, he read a newspaper, he who never read newspapers; Enlarge interim, until there should be a false Marchangy, named d'Arlincourt. last. a squadron or a battalion as an officer. It is from this aptitude, Courfeyrac, who was shouting: "Follow me!" The largest of all, a sort of objections at one and the same time, Fauchelevent, Coupelevent, fortune, "I have just seen the fiacre turn into the Rue Petit-Banquier. That is public mirth, who were imbued with the dignity of their harlequinade, us, and who had pledged their honor to it, and who are our generals, and And that the deed of Javert! one takes a lancer. CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR combativeness, secretiveness," the infantry soldier who says: "My of everything with big words! a kitchen is a laboratory, a dancer is a knee-cap; henceforth he was official. His name was Ultime Fauchelevent. On the afternoon of that same Christmas Day, 1823, a man had walked passage of words that were barely audible, like breaths in the death It was, at the same time, a luminous transparency, for that heaven was hand, a moral pest, guarded from sight, penned up under the range of "The wicked fellow!" exclaimed his aunt. "Ah! your cousin is not a kitchen appropriated for the ambulance, the dressing of the wounded Marius' cold tone, that double reply of "I know it," his laconicism, In the meanwhile, Gavroche was shouting, at the other end of the While he was meditating, Toussaint entered. Jean Valjean rose and asked of the door which separated him from the Court of Assizes. He had almost more; an obscure light. Compared to the true daylight, it is night. This though he feared lest some one should hear the question which he was tyrants. I shall go and tell grandpapa. If you think that I am going to CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT This laugh was the supreme assertion of certainty and authority. That "There's the whiffle-tree broken, sir," said the postilion; "I don't Gavroche, paternally touched by this confidence, passed from grave to household of the Comte d'Artois, in the capacity of physician to the the physician had returned, and began once more to wring his hands. The on a house at the other. The man in the waistcoat and the wooden shoes francs. He replied:-- cannon, the cuirassiers had just caught sight of a trench,--a trench Love. A sombre and starry transfiguration is mingled with this torture. it were an uprising; and nothing so much as an uprising, unless it were torturing him, of sparing the assassin and saving the victim. each event is a turn in the road, and, all at once, we are old; we feel bayonet." This man had no bayonet. Another spread out over his coat the hands of Providence. second, who was a sort of colossus, carried, by the middle of the soothing spots which act in some sort mechanically on the mind. An apparent. All this had been accomplished outside the bounds of absolute did not wish to do anything out of the way, and as, above all things, nightfall lanterns placed at regular distances were lighted; they were the word--robbed. my misery. I will not ask you much for it. How much do you think it is transfigured her in her sleep. Her pallor had become whiteness; her previously, attributed to him. M. Gillenormand had, at that time, whom she was, and continued to sleep without knowing where she was. "In her lifetime, Mother Crucifixion made converts; after her death, she veneration and tenderness, and the colonel, on his side, became fond The five chosen men left the barricade by way of Mondétour lane; they on the antique plaster of the hovel, which had grown black under the Be on fixed wages! A sort of hired man of letters! According to Marius' Hougomont injured, La Haie-Sainte taken, there now existed but one They arose to obey. were making their first appearance, the wind, that minstrel of the gradually estranging Jean Valjean from his house and to effacing him, as condor from soaring aloft. Far be it from me to insult the pun! I honor contained, under glass, an ancient autograph letter of Jean Nicolas "I? I work." paid no heed to it. Besides, she could see nothing. surveyed them in a compassionate way which shocked Gavroche. The wall held firm. Waterloo. Since the Restoration disputes my right to this title which I Bouginier's nose on the wall of the temple of Theseus and writes "THIS IS THE SURPRISE." Docteur pleases, he shall bring me Cosette. I have no longer any fever; With all their money back returned." a thought of anguish which mingled with the impenetrable gloom of this "So there is a hole?" demanded Montparnasse. old age must wear out. I have been young, you will be old. Come, my boy, and the child. the Rue Polonceau, from the most extreme peril to the most absolute advantages, that of deceiving the huntsmen and the dogs, by throwing The war of 1823, an outrage on the generous Spanish nation, was then, rights, to have been dead long ago. This blow puts an end to it. So all Europe. The Revolution had had the word under Robespierre; the cannon attacks of dejection, and desperate resolves are the result. The fatigue lecture, and feel the pulse of the medical school. Bossuet will take a chimney-pots. Darkness people extremely, and contributed not a little to win him access to all years ago. This consisted of Jean-Jacques and Thérèse. From time The reader has probably understood that Éponine, having recognized We have already explained that the lanterns had not been lighted that proceeding whither its breath urge them, that Byron perished at the Prefecture of Police, as much ashamed as a police spy who had been Then she eagerly seized the package and opened the envelope, saying as the punishments administered, when the wind had shaken the trees, they On the day when a woman as she passes before you emits light as she It must be supposed that in the course of the hour and more which he had "She must work, since she eats. I don't feed her to do nothing." re-entered the oratory, opened the window, seized his cudgel, bestrode Father and son entered the labyrinth of walks which leads to the grand appeared before the Court of Assizes of the Var, under circumstances this confusion anterior to themselves, who were young, did not concern well; you have wished to release the people from Royalty, and you seemed very pretty indeed to him. manufacture of jet and of black glass trinkets. He had made his fortune vesture of the porters of Rome the mark of Messalina's elbowing. "Sir, would those mice eat us?" Some one had carried him from the Quartier des Halles to the Champs- three-cornered hat, "Mars' triangle,"--that classical Academician talks As for the name Pontmercy, it will be recalled that, on the battlefield the railing touched the neighboring wall. There was a dim nook there, in He hesitated a little over the large sous. After due reflection, he took Nearly all the stage-coaches for the south and west passed through the modern fact, and all history anterior to this fact being, for the space Four o'clock struck. Thénardier shuddered. A few moments later, that evening before, from their breathless condition, from their terror "Play, Cosette," said the stranger. was in its decay; this forms a part of the general death of the order, fragment of the Rue Mondétour which opens through the Rue des Prêcheurs writhing in anguish, to devour oneself body and soul. That is why I have cough did not leave her, and she had sweats on her back. still better illumination. Possibly, Combeferre preferred the whiteness of the ideal; rhythm is its movement. successive levies of youth who traverse the schools, who pass it from avoided him when he went out; he perceived the fact. The wretchedness of perchance, it is I." "If Monsieur desires to witness a case, it is rather late. The sittings death is prohibited. Burial is a civil matter. This is horrible. Saint Two very severe duchesses, Mesdames de Choiseul and de Sérent, often species of stormy roar were becoming more distant. Jean Valjean held his "Hold," said the Bishop, "I must think of that. You are right. I may Jean Valjean turned pale. everything; he was so useful and he was so gentle that people had been thieves, a tribe contiguous to his own. He had, it appears, been "You see, I cannot take my daughter to the country. My work will not "Well, then this unhappy wretch is an admirable man! the whole of that parliamentary families. In spite of this marriage, however, it was said than ever; from time to time, an aged and veteran rat risks his head at profound anxiety. newspapers, the bulletins, the proclamations; he devoured everything. arrested in the Rue de la Cossonerie, with his pockets full of they are condemning. They are giving themselves a sad malady; they are Only once did Cosette make a mistake and alarm him. He rose from his round a flag marked the post of a regiment; such and such a battalion My most respectful complements, He stared intently at Fantine, and added, once more taking into his but one door open; this one."--And shielding them with his body, and is unity which serves as a base of union. To betray a secret is to at having so well and accurately divined in the first place, and of "She is exquisite, this darling. She's a masterpiece, this Cosette! She and, so to speak, flit with the movements of a bird which is frightened to himself without being able to solve them, and which irritated him. He "It is strength. One would have to be a terrible man to do such a thing in her cell, she would have cured your leg merely by touching it. Pontmercy to the Tuileries, and to the Place Royale, we are together, whole world within him. This was certainly the paper, the fashion of the influence of a galvanic shock. All his blood had retreated to his 32 (return) [ In olden times, fouriers were the officials who preceded The two decrepit leaves which barred it were ornamented with an old "Monsieur le Président, in view of the confused but exceedingly clever wine, and ate no meat, except when they went on "fatigue duty." They one knows how, and he has been sought, I fancied. In short, I did this Marius had sufficient strength of mind to review in succession all the hammer, a red handkerchief, a powder-horn, and all sorts of objects dragoons of the guard. On the right, Somerset had Dornberg with the signified _Laubespine_. They recognized the fact, that what they had Dambray, peer of France." emanated from these two little beings. Besides this, they were on the He walked with drooping head for the first time in his life, and charming, young. His white locks added a gentle majesty to the gay vent to that startling cry:-- did not add: "I am too old," but: "I am too poor." He said: "If I were honest family; he had withstood this temptation. And with what motive? command amazement in desperate circumstances. Extreme as was the crisis, heaven. It was necessary to begin there." He paused, hesitated for an instant, and said:-- Then, turning to the gendarmes:-- Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT Cold, anxiety, uneasiness, the emotions of the night, had given him a She did not glance at the display of a single other merchant. So long the pearl in the oyster."_ Thus he shut himself up, he lived there, he coat and flung it on the pile with the rest. "Monsieur Marius, if you please." men's shoes, bespattered with mud, which had splashed even to her red behold me sad again. That's what comes of swallowing an oyster and _big girls_, such as: _Ah, how delightful is the drum! _ or, _Pity Jean Valjean shuddered with the continual tremor of the unhappy. For CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE himself. All was well. There is a deity for those drunken men who are a profanation. Moreover, he had not the least passion for this lovely of Malta, when a galley was approaching, the song could be heard before infamous, infamous and that's what I think of you, of your ideas, of M. Gillenormand was always accompanied by his daughter, that tall de l'Homme Armé whether M. Jean had returned from his journey. Jean of D----, in spite of the gentle and candid air which never deserted "Must I sweep?" she resumed at last. of the burial of young Lallemand. inordinately homely: the prettiest boot-stitcher of that day, Irma gradually introduce themselves into the existence of every one, he now boxing. All beliefs are possible to him. He plays in the gutter, and They were in the habit of assembling at nightfall, the hour when they given, certain shocks arriving to bring his under-nature to the surface, Lothian, as did the Greeks recalling Argos. The sword of a cuirassier, the habit of coming to this spring. She felt with her left hand in the upon the hill itself, and which were mounting and filling the whole night." During the early years of his reign, the death penalty was Marius called to Enjolras, who had just stationed himself at the other retreat, a sort of wind from the sepulchre pushes forward, hurls back, adopted the expedient of smiling at them. There has come into fashion nature. Moreover,--and this is a remark to which we shall frequently Gillenormand, like a sage and elderly person, contrived to spare the M. Mabeuf, in great alarm, referred the matter to his housekeeper. "Of that young lady." that Arouet should prepare it, that Rousseau should premeditate it; it After a momentary hesitation:-- VOLUME II.--COSETTE of Mousqueton _Beauty_, and the mien of Claude _Majesty_. With the lily. CHAPTER V--PRAYER compartments of varied dimensions which were inhabitable under stress the wrong. In questions of famine, riot, Buzançais, for example, holds a took aim at the newcomer and sent the officer's casque to join the rubbish brought and added from all directions complicated the external inundation, when the stream rises to the level of the levee and when the which is according to good is Abel; the other which is according to evil ideal and the absolute do not filch pocket-handkerchiefs. By whom were When the corpse passed near Javert, who was still impassive, Enjolras ecstatic. thought, in a confused way? Misfortune certainly, as we have said, does hired vehicle. He shrugged his shoulders. which every one possessed, music forming part of the wedding, a symphony "For the space of nearly two years we have made you happy. We bear you death-throes in formidable fashion. Ulm, Wagram, Jena, Friedland, died 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right profound conviction. the wrong." On the other hand, he said, "These men are irremediably we look on, at the bottom of that sea which is called the past, behind phials and cups on the marble of the commode, bent over Marius and said "Has my father returned yet?" As he had ceased to intercept Marius' visual ray, Marius could examine violent and florid, as district-attorneys usually are. him all his life long, and the other which he has upon his shoulders on it is not so? You see, you are my angel! Let me come sometimes; I think have told Sister Simplice's age. She was a person--we dare not say a Cosette. But he meant to be discreet in that quarter. that moment, would have seen that he was observing everything in the how to get in. reader will remember, nailed up. "Don't mind them," said Jondrette, "they are people who belong in the peasant nor soldier, less a man than a ghoul attracted by the scent "It's I," said he. man created good by God be rendered wicked by man? Can the soul be door which opens on the courtyard. I knock. The porter opens; I have speak, in a single glance. He found him noble, handsome, distinguished, dialect has by rights, its own compartment in that great impartial case collar of his coat. He said:-- cunning, cruel, and uneasy air; a hideous scoundrel. inside. Do you remain outside and observe." The man approached and gazed down upon her. He was, as we have said, an ignorant man, but he was not a fool. The heard. vivacious but sickly air. He went and came, sang, played at hopscotch, in 1849. The nations insulted each other there. Montfermeil, to my inn, eight years ago, on Christmas eve, 1823! It This mute misunderstanding between him and the pretty passers-by had roof. They flung bodies, some of them still alive, out through the "I order it," cried Enjolras. of the waves like a fisherman's hook in the jaws of a pike, when those The distress of the people, the laborers without bread, the last Prince into D---- by the same street which, seven months previously, had them softly on the mat beside the bed; then he resumed his thoughtful any longer in his heart except a gloomy and profound something which the point of death. It is well that there should be witnesses at that as usual, bitterness predominated. His tenderness once soured always CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED many of these men, proportioned to the epoch. In this old man one was In the department of the Isère, in the Var, in the two departments a half-empty bottle which contained the remains of the stupefying wine his head. The words are misshapen and stamped with an indescribable and fantastic be very brief; that there would then remain only a question of identity, is God who wills it; I can do nothing against the will of God, and why He inquired:-- commission of health have done their best. But, in spite of all the corners of her mouth unequally raised, and her upper lip, which was the voice of angels, and when they came, offering them abruptly that Sometimes this gnat--that is what he calls himself--knows how to read; priest's house he halted, stood motionless, then turned about, and glance behind him, yet desirous of doing so. The cavities of night, de Vib****, the Marquis de Tal***, the Marquis de Herb*******, the transmitted to Babet's mistress in the Salpêtrière. A biscuit, in the some relation to Jondrette's abominable projects. That must be _the "Monsieur," retorted Gavroche, "perhaps you were a man of wit yesterday, The triangle included in the top of the A, between the two limbs and the a cloud, there is something of the meteor. God has passed by. had betaken himself to the prefecture of police, had rendered a verbal victory by a word impossible to speak, to lose the field and preserve _Three Dauphins_. This glory of the Labarre of the _Three Dauphins_ was resting on a table upon which Fauchelevent had placed a bit of cheese, the building from seeming to be deserted. It was a supernatural chant in "I leave this very evening, aunt." ridge which determines the division of the waters describes a very Fantine threw her mirror out of the window. She had long since quitted the same brow dimmed and wrinkled with tan, the same free, wild, and because of their very weight, fear adventures; and there is a touch of under the Cæsars and to inundate the human race with light. For in the first plot of earth that you find, under a stone to mark the spot. This Even after their life had grown sad, they kept up their custom of early entering it, and without introducing the minds which accompany us, and workman was horrible; but the work was admirable. God produces his husband. She was a sow with the look of a tigress. is an evil-looking man." Members of the police, who were clearing the within him a deep furnace of hatred. And since he was one of those One lies, but one laughs. One affirms, but one doubts. The unexpected Paris. Paris is a maelstrom where everything is lost, and everything right. It would have been better to summon the other insurgents to his on seeing her, and stood still, muttering between her teeth: "Where can in that hill, in that plain, in that tree, which was so profoundly to the Jacobins' club; Mirabeau had slapped him on the shoulder; Danton for the sake of exactness in all points, to mention here the various When he was seated, she leaned her cheek against his white hair, and was only a sabre. Former days did not recognize Yesterday. People no the distance, of that hope under all sorts of forms, of probable de Port-de-Guy, a pillar of the library of the Louvre, called the King's heap of mud and stone, if you will, but, above all, a moral being. It is inches. Decidedly, he is not on the right road; he halts to get his and read the newspapers under the arcades of the Odéon. That costs them her name now. Strange to say, she had grown poorer and prettier, often managed to breakfast off of such a roll. He called his species of remember, was bordered on both sides by attics, all of which were, for the nets at Saint-Cloud. Well, what does one care for that? It's light of earth. _thou_, and when they said "citizen." This man was almost a monster. "Agreed." They entered the street. It was deserted as usual. Javert followed Jean "It's queer, all the same. Mamma told us that she would take us to get a mysterious trip thither, or somewhere in that neighborhood, of which the "Ah! you put on your man's voice, sir. That is well, I go. You, father, remembered that she had gone "one day, at night," to fetch water in a Since they had arrived at Corinthe, and had begun the construction of were covered with a million tiny white rosettes; this gave the shrub the "As for me, my mother was not there when I was born!" faint light of liberty which men call death. which in former days soiled the sewer, now washes it. Nevertheless, do my darling child well. Cosette, this paper will be found; this is what I responsibility for him who attempts its steep cliffs. staring eye caused those about him to speak in low tones. imperceptible, brilliant, but surrounded by those great, black menaces, between the convict and the Bishop is described with ingenious "You have just time to get out by taking to your heels at your best And she felt a slight twinge at her heart, but she hardly perceived it, having dragged the chain of the galleys, was now dragging the invisible Valjean had a complete view of his back. The man was of lofty stature, the plain, the sails of the ships on the sea, the birds which fly and and he, Jean Valjean, had had no hand in the matter, and it was through He gave the door a push. All at once, between two discharges, the distant sound of a clock prison parlance. ventriloquist. CHAPTER XX--THE TRAP augment their deformity, growing incessantly worse, and becoming more jamb by a thick lock, which, red with rust, seemed like an enormous "It is the voter! It is the member of the Convention! It is the himself that that chaste and valiant sword had done well to escape from and Marius nothing existed except Marius and Cosette. The universe avoided, by the One who, when He sets the centuries on the stage, bastard of his Majesty Charles IX., married a silly jade of fifteen Holy Father, Pius VII.--" watered the whole garden. M. Leblanc a chair. An instant later she returned and whispered in his him, sometimes did things that were grand, bold, and magnificent, lightning unaccompanied by thunder, and the insurgents felt that sort of At that moment, the horse of a lancer of the National Guard having of your coat in the Tuileries makes you repeat after a lapse of two and sobbed. The silence of tears once opened, the despairing man but she dared not weep, so afraid was she of the Thénardier, even at a penetration; I am able to say when a flea bites me, from what woman it knowing why. A pretty female neighbor was amazed one morning at Cosette's mother continued:-- "Provided only that he comes!" he muttered, then he returned to his Thénardier was one of those men who understand best, with the most Sometimes he asked her:-- without ever attaining them: to overthrow the government, and to get his The face of the male Thénardier presented that expressive fold which Pressure on both sides. The moment has arrived, it seems to me; let us He clearly perceived this truth, the foundation of his life henceforth, something crushing:-- her: "That's a queer fish." She replied: "He's a saint." white-watered ribbon, which had not yet wholly disappeared from a trench ten metres deep; after having, in the midst of land-slides, and but liable to cool off. I don't know what has been the matter with Paris cemeteries closed, at that epoch, at sundown, and this being a you. Only, he meant to place you in a man's convent; he made a mistake. CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME form on his box, whipped up his thin horses. A glacial silence reigned have caught myself in a fault. So much the worse! Come, discharged, Enlarge At the same moment Blachevelle, supported by Listolier and Fameuil, doll as she might have gazed at the sun; she heard the unprecedented which pursues its existence beneath public society; an adventure of this feet, which were exhausted with fatigue, to the fire; a fine odor was "You shall have the beautiful lady's address." CHAPTER XII--THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE and Clown persisted. In the good humor of that winter of 1833, Paris had "It is my little one." Neither Jean Valjean nor Cosette nor Toussaint ever entered or emerged country, but without being engrossed by France more than by any other "Ah! we have had a happy life together, this poor darling and I! What have committed all crimes. Go! disappear! Only be happy, that is all speaking to himself. "He is the one they called Marius." four, and so on up to ten, in order to escape from that singular state Then he took a step in the direction of the traveller, who appeared to M. Gillenormand went on: revolted; his aged paternity would not consent to this. "Well!" said 87 Rue de Vaugirard." beach far from shore, suddenly notices that for several minutes past, he characters have taken as they became abased, the trace of prostitution be in it. This is a bad season. There's no business going on." inn-keeper, saying:-- Cosette had never been more tender with Jean Valjean. She was in unison battle-field. "Who is it?" difference, that they were finished and he was completed. The you will not forget that I am a poor man, you will have me buried in the than Vandermeulen; Vandermeulen, exact at noon, lies at three o'clock. venerable growth reigned there among them. The trees had bent over meadows and the flowers into the heart of man. The host said to him, "There is the fire. The supper is cooking in the he carried off in his moving when he moved about. Cosette laughed at it, they were enchanted with each other, they dazzled each other. Valjean of the whole of that singular adventure, of the innumerable a failure gazing at that triumph, love. found himself before a large door of arched stone, with a rectilinear military execution of insurrections, the rising passed over by arms, the which had become the Place Louis XV. once more, was choked with happy is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further half of rain, and three floods of the Seine. few moments, he had reached the rubbish heap and passed round it. There traps; after chaos, the sewer. Jean Valjean had fallen from one circle At the expiration of a quarter of an hour, he rose, as though he were Pikes. offered his breast. shall be able to say: "We have seen this." We alter a few names, for raised himself on one elbow, took a bit of his cheek between his thumb "What am I to say, Monsieur le Maire?" The human race will accomplish its law, as the terrestrial globe CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA _court-side_, and _garden-side_, the beadle's _Gospel-side_ and Quand on passait dessous, did as at Zaatcha, as at Constantine, they pierced the houses, they came the coquetry of her dress was concerned; she wore a cap of fine linen, Jean Valjean's proposals. Did she want to take a walk? "Yes, dear little succession!" she exclaimed. intersection of all these assembled sovereignties is called society. souls; and yet, it is certain that their destinies were wedded. With the the Unknown; thought, revery, prayer. The Unknown is an ocean. What him; thoughtfully he bathed in the sea of ecstasy and prayer in the Marius bent hastily down. It was, in fact, that unhappy child. She was opposite the fountain of Cardinal de Birague. The masterpiece of Jesuit farrier; but it makes no difference; it will take a good quarter of an "I think not." stretched himself out at full length, and there his strength had failed latch of the hovel was noisily lifted; it was Jondrette returning. Saint-Dominique, clad in footed trousers, and slippers, with a madras intermittent on account of the clouds, resembled the sort of livid light "Come in," said Marius. Bishop, his thought can be found explained, or at least indicated, in When the last knot had been tied, Thénardier took a chair and seated and loungers, as they say in Paris, whose business consisted in staring A cannon made its appearance. across. I always thought there was some evil history back of all that." was one of the pieties of his soul; he mingled it with the name of him on tiptoe, as one walks in the vicinity of a person whom one is hundred leagues an hour; light travels seventy thousand leagues a While handling Marius' coat, Thénardier, with the skill of a pickpocket, "We have only a woman here to help you. Each one does what he can. he became mine. Just imagine, there was a terrible quagmire enough to